Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, on Civil Works Activities, Volumes 1-2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - Civil engineering

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Page 433 - California, is hereby authorized substantially in accordance with the plans contained in House Document Numbered 630, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 560 - Avenue to the navigation turning basin ; all generally in accordance with the plans of the district engineer, and with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 90 - ... feet; and for partially closing Plum Island Basin by a timber dike about 800 feet long and 5.5 feet above mean low water; the object being to create at the outer bar a permanent channel 1,000 feet wide and at least 17 feet deep at mean low water, to enable vessels of such draft as can proceed at high tide to the wharves at Newburyport to enter the river at mean low water. The mean range of tide is 7.9 feet at the bar and 7.8 feet at Newburyport.
Page 443 - Congress, 1st session, local interests are required to furnish assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that they will (a) furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, and...
Page 375 - Key improvement is subject to the conditions that local interests give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of War that they will provide...
Page 755 - June 28, 1938, approved the general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Upper Mississippi River Basin described in Flood Control Committee Document No. 1, Seventy-fifth Congress, first session, with such modifications thereof as in the discretion of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers may be advisable...
Page 740 - ... provide necessary mooring facilities and utilities, including a public landing with suitable supply facilities...
Page 861 - The general comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in the Missouri River Basin approved by the Act of June 28, 1938...
Page 101 - ... hold and save the United States free from claims for damages resulting from the improvement.
Page 420 - Local cooperation. — This provides that local interests agree to furnish, free of cost to the United States, all lands, easements, rights-of-way, and spoil-disposal areas...

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